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Shoom
, around which is a border in the shape of a love-heart. This is a black-and-white version, but it came in other colour combinations |The Shoom logo on a grey background. Variants of this design were used for posters, flyers and t-shirts. Shoom was a weekly all-nighter dance music event in London, England, between September 1987 and early 1990. It is widely credited with initiating the acid house movement in the UK. Shoom was founded by Danny Rampling, then an unknown DJ and record producer, and managed by his wife Jenni. The club began at a 300-capacity basement gym on Southwark Street in South London. By May 1988, its growing popularity necessitated a move to the larger Raw venue on Tottenham Court Road, Central London, and a switch from Saturday to Thursday nights. Later relocations were to The Park Nightclub, Kensington and Busby's venue on Charing Cross Road. The early nights featured Danny Rampling and Terry Farley as the in-house DJs, playing a mixture of Chicago house, Balearic and Detroit techno, mixed with contemporary pop and post-punk music. The club favoured modern, minimalist architectural interior designs, filled with strawberry-scented smoke machines and strobe lights. Its musical and visual culture evolved around the psychedelic drug LSD, and MDMA, an empathogen commonly known in the UK as ecstasy or "E".…
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, around which is a border in the shape of a love-heart. This is a black-and-white version, but it came in other colour combinations |The Shoom logo on a grey background. Variants of this design were used for posters, flyers and t-shirts. Shoom was a weekly all-nighter dance music event in London, England, between September 1987 and early 1990. It is widely credited with initiating the acid house movement in the UK. Shoom was founded by Danny Rampling, then an unknown DJ and record producer, and managed by his wife Jenni. The club began at a 300-capacity basement gym on Southwark Street in South London. By May 1988, its growing popularity necessitated a move to the larger Raw venue on Tottenham Court Road, Central London, and a switch from Saturday to Thursday nights. Later relocations were to The Park Nightclub, Kensington and Busby's venue on Charing Cross Road. The early nights featured Danny Rampling and Terry Farley as the in-house DJs, playing a mixture of Chicago house, Balearic and Detroit techno, mixed with contemporary pop and post-punk music. The club favoured modern, minimalist architectural interior designs, filled with strawberry-scented smoke machines and strobe lights. Its musical and visual culture evolved around the psychedelic drug LSD, and MDMA, an empathogen commonly known in the UK as ecstasy or "E".…
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